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Jewish refugees escorted out of Croydon airport, 1939. Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948, is a book by Louise London, first published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. [1] [2] [3] It has 313 pages, covering a preface, nine chapters followed by a conclusion, two appendices detailing biographical notes and Home Secretary and Home Office permanent under secretaries (1906-1950) respectively ...
One of several flights organised by the Barbican Mission before 15 March 1939, the first flight of all Jewish children left Prague in January 1939. [1] [3] KLM made available two Dutch Douglas aircraft that day. [1] At the scene of departure, were the children, their parents, Winton, photographers and journalists. [1]
Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948 (2000) Louise Ann London is the author the book Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948 (2000), credited as a scholarly addition to the historical interest in Jewish immigration, and shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in 2001.
The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album , they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers .
Whitehall itself was a wide street and had sufficient space for a scaffold to be erected for the King's execution at Banqueting House. [2] He made a brief speech there before being beheaded. [14] [b] Cromwell died at the Palace of Whitehall in 1658. [3] People gathered in Whitehall to hear Winston Churchill's victory speech, 8 May 1945
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The official food ration was only 180 calories per person daily. Although being caught on the "Aryan" side of the city was an offense punishable by death, people survived by smuggling and running illegal workshops. [8] In mid-1942, most of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Local Ukrainians abuse a Jew, probably during the pogrom in July 1941. [14] Photo was taken by a Wehrmacht propaganda company.. At the time of the German attack on the Soviet Union, about 160,000 Jews lived in the city; [15] the number had swelled by tens of thousands due to the arrival of Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland in late 1939.